How Traditional Metalworker Nousaku Created a Unique Brand

The new Nousaku factory aims to showcase traditional craftsmanship and the charms of Takaoka and Toyama. © Kurumata Tamotsu.

Red-hot metal is poured into a mold.

Watch experienced craftspeople up close.

Workshop participants can have their own tin castings made by forming shapes in sand molds.

The cafe is a good source of ideas on incorporating metal tableware into your home.

Nousaku’s president, Nōsaku Katsuji.

The windchime that put Nousaku on the popular retail map.

The Magaru line of bendable homewares can be bent into a variety of shapes to suit the application.

Magaru products can be easily formed by anyone. Popular as accents to rooms, they exude a warm ambience that is unusual for metal.

These vases have been polished on a lathe to bring out the inherent beauty of their metal.

Handmade, solid tin utensils.

This display is made from disused wooden molds. The brass map of Japan in the foreground has been polished to a mirror finish.